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Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 in short supply
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Is the 970 a record seller at OCUK? They flew off the shelves at launch and by the sounds of it still are!
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its quite amazing what you can achieve with a very mediocre card, bags of hype and an insane low price for it lol.
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I upgraded from watercooled crossfired 7970's to SLI's 970's - couldn't be happier and the 970 was the card I was waiting for. Incidently, it's also the first time EVER I've not got for a range topper.
Rofl. How's the fishing going?
Rofl. How's the fishing going?
The fact that these 970s clock to 1500-1600 for gaming is deceiving. Most 970s have stock boosts of 1250-1320 and they clock to 1500-1600 which is still only 20%~.
Many cards have done that, previous generation cards did that. Even my 290 does that, my 290 does about 30% for gaming.
So why do people say it overclocks like there's no tommorow? I dont know...
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only 1 bite so far
but jokes aside, lets be honest here, it's a new mid range card with an exceptionally aggressive price point that only becomes a beast setup when you add a 2nd one.
I really cant see the huge fuss with either the 970 or 980, who cares about low power, I want bags of grunt on a new GPU and if that means a higher needed PSU, then so what lol.
you're talking rubbish M8, it's deffo not a mediocre card or i wouldn't have brought it, it's way better than my old 7970 Dual X.... and by a really big margin..... it's also better than the 7990
SLI will be a monster !
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Am not surprised
from Single 290 to 2x 970 you should seen a nice performance boost.
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Am not surprised
I didn't buy both cards right away, was running a single 970 for a couple of weeks, still didn't regret the move.
DSR, PhysX and just pure stability is awesome and was well worth the move.
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As I predicted the closed-mindedness of actual 970 fanboys wont admit they're not overclocking beasts as many people claim they are
The cards that run at 1550-1600Mhz show a good 250Mhz+ overclock.... That's not a good overclock
My cards have gone from max boost block of 1178Mhz to 1500Mhz, 322Mhz is not considered a good overclock?
If the high-end AMD cards regularly did 300Mhz+ overclocks I'm sure people would sure be ranting and raving about it.
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The cards that run at 1550-1600Mhz show a good 250Mhz+ overclock.... That's not a good overclock
My cards have gone from max boost block of 1178Mhz to 1500Mhz, 322Mhz is not considered a good overclock?
If the high-end AMD cards regularly did 300Mhz+ overclocks I'm sure people would sure be ranting and raving about it.
The 970s arent special, MANY other cards have clocked and still clocks the same. Look at 780s.
He's really not, you're also coming from a 7970 which was the previous generation which is why you've seen the biggest improvement but if you were coming from a 290 it's more of a side step according to some of those that have made the leap.
It's a good card for an amazing price but if you don't care about heat or power consumption a 290 for £200 with £50 worth of games is amazing.
I will say this though, if I had no gfx card and I had the choice between 290 and 970 I would go for a 970 just because I've been with AMD for so long and they're not that much more expensive and I really want to try out a proper PhysX card.
only 1 bite so far
but jokes aside, lets be honest here, it's a new mid range card with an exceptionally aggressive price point that only becomes a beast setup when you add a 2nd one.
I really cant see the huge fuss with either the 970 or 980, who cares about low power, I want bags of grunt on a new GPU and if that means a higher needed PSU, then so what lol.
I take it you don't use energy saving light bulbs in your house then?
This "who cares about power usage" is so old now.
I switched from a 290 to a single 970. I've not had a single issue in games, everything runs faultlessly, quiet and cool. Performance is also higher than my 290.
This is the 290 that used more power, was hotter and thus louder and refused to work with mantle after numerous driver uninstalls and changes. Hell even the DX11 performance is no where near as good as the 970. Running BF4 at medium settings to maintain FPS above 80 odd?! When the 970 will run it at High and maintain on average 130fps.
With the card overclocked it's matching and passing the graphics score of 780Tis, 290x and Titans according to the Firestrike leaderboard on this forum.
For the £150 cost of the "side grade" i'm more than happy.
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I have yet to see someone with a 970 beat my 290 (non x)
Give me unlocked volts and I'll give it a whirl.
Bare in mind that run was done with the fan profile on auto and the card running at 59-62 degrees as well.
I can see two 290 GPU scores on the leader board that I haven't beaten. Lets not forget the 290 was advertised as the "high end card" after the 280x and was top dollar, £299 I believe when they were released.
If the 290 wasn't so power hungry and mantle had actually worked for me then I would have kept it. However anyone who says "swapping from a 290 to a 970" is a daft move isn't taking into account the whole picture
The 780 to a 970 is a daft move.
Bare in mind that run was done with the fan profile on auto and the card running at 59-62 degrees as well.
I can see two 290 GPU scores on the leader board that I haven't beaten. Lets not forget the 290 was advertised as the "high end card" after the 280x and was top dollar, £299 I believe when they were released.
If the 290 wasn't so power hungry and mantle had actually worked for me then I would have kept it. However anyone who says "swapping from a 290 to a 970" is a daft move isn't taking into account the whole picture
The 780 to a 970 is a daft move.
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I have yet to see someone with a 970 beat my 290 (non x)
In what?
My little Zotac was only £260 a few weeks back and it does 200mhz + without voltage adjustment. Almost zero coil whine too.
It fits in my SG05 ITX case easily, runs pretty quiet and cool even with my terrible airflow and it eats everything for breakfast I bought it to play (at 1080p).
I'm also not worried that my 450w psu will struggle while oc'ing both the CPU and GPU.
Very glad that the 290 I bought wouldn't fit in my case.
Obviously coming from a 360 and a 6 year old laptop with an AMD 3450 GPU it's going to seem insane but I have had Voodoo 1, Riva TNT, Geforce 3 and X800 XL before when they were brand new so I'm not a total noob.
I'll upgrade it or move it to an SLI box when I can't play the games I like.
I'm very surprised that people have switched to 970s from 780s but not from 290s.
It fits in my SG05 ITX case easily, runs pretty quiet and cool even with my terrible airflow and it eats everything for breakfast I bought it to play (at 1080p).
I'm also not worried that my 450w psu will struggle while oc'ing both the CPU and GPU.
Very glad that the 290 I bought wouldn't fit in my case.
Obviously coming from a 360 and a 6 year old laptop with an AMD 3450 GPU it's going to seem insane but I have had Voodoo 1, Riva TNT, Geforce 3 and X800 XL before when they were brand new so I'm not a total noob.
I'll upgrade it or move it to an SLI box when I can't play the games I like.
I'm very surprised that people have switched to 970s from 780s but not from 290s.